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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport was popular in the Soviet Union in the seventies?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Football.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Baseball.

2. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Robin Ventura.
(b) Gary Carter.
(c) Roger Clemens.
(d) Pedro Martinez.

3. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?
(a) 1840-1858.
(b) 1918 to 1940.
(c) 1898-1935.
(d) 1920-1932.

4. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Violence.
(b) Execution of Party leaders.
(c) Intervention from the West.
(d) Stubornness.

5. What country did Trivimi Velliste, president of the Estonian Heritage Society, use as an example for the road to Independence?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) India.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Eveni once they were herded into villages by the Soviets?

2. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

3. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?

4. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

5. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?

(see the answer key)

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